This just in: Veteran news anchor Leslie Griffith has resigned from KTVU, according to sources.

An official press release is scheduled to be issued later today.

As TV viewers know, this move comes as no surprise. Griffith has been off the air for more than 10 weeks in what the station characterized as a leave of absence. But behind the scenes, negotiations were under way on a departure settlement.

Griffith joined KTVU in April 1986 as a weekend reporter and anchor. She rose through the ranks to become one of the Bay Area’s most recognized TV journalists. In March of 1998, she became co-anchor, along with Dennis Richmond, on the “Ten O’Clock News” after Elaine Corral resigned under mysterious circumstances.

Over the past year, Griffith has privately expressed dissatisfaction with the management and direction of KTVU’s news department. During her absence, KTVU anchors were instructed to say at the top of the newscast, “Leslie Griffith is off tonight,” making it seem as if she’d be rejoining the program.

But early on in her leave, she told this reporter, “I’m not ever going to come back.”